Glazed Longevity

Jingdezhen, 1800-1880
Height: 6.2 cm
Mouth/lip: .58/1.25 cm
Stopper: glass, carved with a coiled chi dragon; glass collar

Provenance
Maynard’s, Vancouver, 5 December 2012, lot 329
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd

 

Turquoise glaze on porcelain; with a double body, the upper layer reticulated and with a flat lip and recessed, slightly concave oval foot surrounded by a protrudinbg, convex, oval footrim; the upper body carved with a similar design on each main side of four bats surrounding a壽 shou (‘longevity’) character  the narrow sides with a formalized petal diaper, the base with a band of formalized floral design, the shoulders with another variation of the same, the lip and foot also glazed, the interior unglazed.

Alexander Whittaker